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Earl Everett

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Earl Everett has over 30 years of engineering, management, and program/project management experience. He has managed and directed development, test, and systems groups with firms such as Autodesk, Advanced Fibre Communications, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft. His first 'agile' experience was in 1973, when he began playing rugby, a complex adaptive system game providing an immersive experience with solid cross-functional teams utilizing 'inspect and adapt'.

His first experience with Agile was in 2002. He has introduced, led, and nurtured successful Agile, Scrum, and Kanban transformations and and XP development and delivery practices in several companies, with greatly improved quality, productivity, and customer and team satisfaction.

He wrote the foreword to "Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change", was the top-rated speaker at the Keep Austin Agile Conference in 2012, and has led a number of workshops and seminars for Agile Austin and companies in the Central Texas area, and at regional Agile conferences.

Earl is a Certified Scrum Practitioner, Certified ScrumMaster, and Certified Scrum Product Owner, and is active in the Austin Agile community.

schedule 3 years ago

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60 Mins

Talk

Intermediate

Developing and delivering software and systems is hard. Individual technical skills are not enough; delivery is a team sport. A weak team’s results range from slipped deliverables and missed opportunities, to failed projects, products, and organizations, all of which result in unhappy team members, stakeholders, and customers. If Team problems are overlooked, success will overlook the Team.

Peter Senge, in his seminal book The Fifth Discipline, described the Learning Organization. The Agile community has demonstrated that high-performing Teams must first become skilled in learning as a team. Having learned how to learn rapidly (i.e. become a micro-learning organization), they can deliver working software and systems, and deliver successfully, on-time, and repeatedly.

Agility is a mindset – a mindset that learns rapidly through effective use of feedback loops. In this interactive discussion, we will explore single-, and double-feedback loops, and how to use these effectively in your Team retrospectives, to help your Team grow into a learning organization, paving the way to true adaptability and great results.

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” -- W. Edwards Deming “Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.” -- Caroline Schoeder

If your Teams are tired of feeling heat, come explore mechanisms that can help you learn to learn and see the light.